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Chapter 104.1: The Crystal Garden
◆Princess of Hell; Polen
「MUSE-SAMA!! WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THEM TO RIDE THE SHIP AGAIN?!!!」
The beauties were protesting to Muse, the Goddess of Poetry. They kept on asking why we were allowed again on Alphos-sama’s ship.
This time around, even master Kuroki’s demon dragon, Glorious, was riding the ship with us, and, since Glorious had a huge body, the beauties had no choice but to stay in a corner on the ship. That’s why they kept on grumbling non-stop.
Of course, they wouldn’t have made a big deal about it if it was Alphos-sama’s holy dragon, Valjinias, who was on the deck instead. However, Valjinias was currently staging in his own room on the ship, which gave room to us and our dragon to board too.
「Muse-sama~. Let’s expel these girls.」
When one of the beauties said so, the other beauties nodded in agreement. These female warriors under Alphos-sama all readied their weapons, prepared to pounce us at any second.
「Your Highness Pollen, what are you going to do if we have to fight them?」
Poh-chan asked me.
Upon a closer look at her, she had already partially transformed into her beast form.
Poh-chan had another form, and it was that of a giant bear. Looking at her, I recalled when she was just a child; she was an extremely adorable bear cub. Her mother, Eltena, would often bring her to the castle as my playmate.
She was my first playmate. At first, all was fine, but then, Poh-chan kept on growing in size really quickly. At some point, she had grown so much that she could reach the ceiling of my room.
It was, of course, wondrous to see how she was transforming into this huge bear cub that was almost as big as me. But, once she became a lot bigger than me, it became really hard to play with her; I felt like she would crush me at some point.
Just when I thought we’d have to part ways, the bear cub transformed into a little human girl.
I was really shocked at the time. I mean, the bear cub transformed into this super adorable girl.
But then, Eltina finally revealed to me that her race could gain another form once they became an adult.
The figure of the transformed Poh-chan resembled that of Eltina.
I was really jealous of her.
I mean, if only I resembled my mother too.
But, reality was cruel, I didn’t resemble my mother.
Wasn’t this a little bit too odd?
I mean, I should’ve gotten a few of my mother’s traits too, right?
But, I guess nothing can be done about the matter. Let’s just do my best like what master Kuroki said.
「Calm down, bear. Kuroki’s fight is about to begin.」
Shishou stopped Poh-chan.
Shishou’s eyes were completely focused on master Kuroki.
Alphos-sama’s beauties were pointing their hostilities toward us and yet, Kuna-shishou completely disregarded them.
As if those beauties were not worthy of her attention.
「But, Shishou. They look like they’re ready to attack us so…」
The female warriors had already unsheathed their weapons.
Some had already come toward us.
「You’re right. Let’s make them shut their mouth for a little bit.」
Shishou held her scythe. As if to show the beauties that she wasn’t a pushover either.
A blood bath was about to take place on the deck of the ship.
「Please wait a minute!」
But then, Muse stood between them.
「STOP!! PLEASE LOWER YOUR WEAPONS AT ONCE! ALPHOS NEVER ALLOWED A BATTLE ON HIS SHIP! WAIT TILL THE END OF THEIR FIGHT!! THAT’S ALSO WHAT YOU’RE WISHING FOR, RIGHT?!」
Muse asked while looking at us.
「I don’t really mind either way. I’ll miss Kuroki’s fight if you keep bothering us after all. Kuroki’s fight is more important to Kuna after all.」
Kuna-shishou lowered her scythe.
「Thank you very much, Witch. I feel the same way as you, watching Alphos’ fight is more important to me.」
Both of them then looked at the fight between the knights.
From the flying ship, we saw the two knights standing at the mountain top, sword in hand.
The Holy Knight, Alphos-sama, who donned a snow white armor, was holding a blue holy sword that shone like starlight.
The Dark Knight, Master Kuroki, on the other hand, was holding a pitch-black demon sword with blood-red patterns on its blade.
Both sides were ready.
「Master Kuroki… Do your best.」
I watched them as I prayed for Master Kuroki.
◆Dark Knight; Kuroki
「Well then, this will be our first fight, Dark Knight-kun. You’re pretty strong, right?」
Alphos asked such a question.
「But, that doesn’t seem to be the case in my eyes. I mean, it’s true that you beat that Hero of Light-kun, but it might just simply be because he is TOO WEAK.」
Alphos declared so with a smile on his face.
「That’s why I shall use this chance to confirm it myself.」
At one moment, Alphos’ figure swayed for a second. In the next, he was already standing within my range, swinging his sword at me.
I caught the blow with my demon sword.
Fast.
I was really surprised since he was at least as fast as Reiji, or even faster.
「He, you stopped that one huh. Well, I guess you can at least do that much.」
Alphos spoke with a composed look on his face.
「But, since you’re slower than me. I guess that Hero of Light is really just TOO WEAK.」
Alphos rushed towards me once again.
I stopped Alphos’ slash for the second time. At our swords colliding, the clash felt light.
As if I was slashing a feather.
Alphos disengaged his sword from mine, spun in mid-air as he circled behind me, and unleashed a slash from behind.
I used my footwork to the fullest in order to retain my balance and caught his slash with my sword.
「He, you blocked this one too huh. It seems you’re more powerful than any other opponent I’ve fought so far. But still, can you keep up with me?」
Alphos let out a carefree laugh.
Sure enough, he was fast, and his attacks were sharp.
But, it didn’t mean that I had no way to counter it.
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「Yeah, you’re fast. Since that’s the case, let’s see how you handle this.」